Picture-holding device



1950 J. H. RoLLlNs 2,506,519

PICTURE-HOLDING DEVICE Filed March 19, 1946 Patented May 2, T950 UNITED STATES PATENT. DFFICE PICTURE-HOLDING DEVICE Jackson H. Rollins, Toledo, Ohio Application March 19, 1946, Serial No. 655,630

1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to readily attachable shift-resistance means, more particularly for suspended objects or articles as near or against a surface.

This invention has utility when incorporated in wall engaging or rather slide resistance devices adapted to be anchored in a wall contacting portion of a frame, mirror, picture or other object suspended adjacent a wall, where it be desirable to locate the frame to resist vibration or other cause for disturbing and which may tend to alter the object from the location as preferred and placed.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. l is a view, with parts broken away, of a framed object suspended as to a Wall, with features of the invention in location retaining position therefor;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of an embodiment of the picture frame anti-shift Or holder of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a section on the line III-III, Fig. 2, showing the body of the holder element and the relation of the points as extending oppositely from the body and therealong;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary View of a press, herein shown as taking a plurality of strands of wire stock, and adapted to re-form and simultaneously sever plural-pointed holder elements of the invention;

Fig. 5 is a diagrammatic view in plan of a roller or press for producing the elements hereunder from ribbon or tape stock;

Fig. 6 is a side elevation of a holder element from sheet stock; and

Fig. 7 is a section on the line VIIVII, Fig. 6, showin the flat body and its active point portions.

A room side wall I is shown with a hanger 2 from which slantingly descend reaches of a cord or picture frame mounting wire 3 to locate a frame 4 to have its top or upper portion pitch or slant outwardly slightly from the wall I. This locates lower portion 5 of the frame 4 to ride against the wall I. Usual experience from the medial suspension or hanger 2, is for the portion 5 to shift or vary its riding position of contact with the wall l. With mirrors, pictures, or generally any object so suspended, the shift is objectionable, even tho it arise from building vibration or other cause not attributable to untidy housekeeping. To overcome such undesirable condition, the invention herein provides a simple and ready antidote.

A holder device body 6 has in a common direction and terminally from one side thereof sharp projections or points 1. Medially from the opposite side and in a common plane with the points I, is a third point 8.

In practice, while the device may be used in various ways and wide range of locations, a simple placing is to engage the body 6 upon opposite sides of the point 8, to thrust the pair of points 1 into the wall contactin portion 5 of the frame 4 at two widely spaced positions-- say the opposite lower corners. In the normal small dimension of the devices, there is not exposure of a dimension normally to be noted. This assembly throws the pair of points 8 of the two holder devices into slight penetration engagement with the wall I. The points 8 are sharp enough, under the frame load, to provide a non-slip anchor with the wall. There is thus avoided any tendency to scratch or mar the wall or its finish. The minuteness of the points 8 by avoidance of any wall disfiguring, is a desirable factor in leaving the way open for rehanging objects at other locations. The straight side of the body 6 between the points I may allow the insertion of a screw driver, or other object for removal of the device and even its recovery thereby for reuse elsewhere.

Due to the form of identity and importance for having quantity available, production may be developed from small rods or wires 9, which may, even in multiple, be run thru a press Ill. From each section in the press a plurality of the completed objects may be formed.

Instead of from straight wire stock, which might be flat sided for the reworking therefrom of the holders herein as lengthwise therealong, for ribbon or tape sheet metal stock I I, as a supply source, a roller or plunger press I2 may produce in endless series devices I3. As successively interfitting, the devices I3, have a body M, to opposite tapered corners I5 from which extend points I6, comparable with the points I. Medially from the opposite side of the body I4 is a point I'I, comparable with the point 8. It is to be noted in this cutting-out series for the devices I3, the point I! is from a cut-out I8 complementary thereto. Furthermore, the tapered corners I5 are complementary to the inner sides of the points I 6. 7

While in production a wide range of demand may be taken care of with the body 6 from the wire stock 9 and the body I4 from the ribbon stock II, or an overall length from A to and a thickness of from to /64, there may be departure for larger and heavier body devices.

What is claimed and it is desired to secure by Letters Patent is: r

A strip for spacing the back portion of a han ing picture or the like from a Wall, juxtaposed portions of the wall and back being approximately flat and normally departing from parallelism, said strip having one edge thereof adapted to abut said wall and another opposite edge to abut said back, said strip having three points coplanar therewith based on said edges with one of said points extending medially from one edge and the other two points extending from the other edge at its ends, the lineal extent of the respective strip edges between the points being greater than the basing of the several points on the strip edges in providin wall and back abutment seats, with the strip points holding 4 the strip against skidding with respect to the back and the wall and the abutment seats spacing the back from the wall.

JACKSON H. ROLLINS.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 942,321 Girard Dec. 7, 1909 FOREIGN PATENTS 15 Number Country Date 4,835 Great Britain Feb. 28, 1898 1+l-,796 Great Britain June 24, 1909 

